Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Token Entry, Upper Cut, In Your Face, Situated Chaos...
Twelve years ago, Bonnie Garland, a pretty, upper-class Yale student, was murdered. Her estranged boyfriend went up to her bedroom one night and with a hammer cracked her head open "like a watermelon," as he put it. Murders are a dime a dozen in America. But the real story here, the real horror, chronicled in painful detail by Willard Gaylin (in The Killing of Bonnie Garland), was the aftermath: sympathy turned immediately from victim to murderer, a Mexican American recruited to Yale from the Los Angeles barrio. Within five weeks he was free on bail, living with the Christian...
L.D.P. leaders are jittery about the prospect of losing their majority in the upper house after elections that must take place by mid-August. Retaining control of the lower house in elections to be held no later than the summer of 1990 is even more important, since that body appoints the Prime Minister. "By that time, we will have political reform," said an L.D.P. leader. "The public sentiment will not be as vehement as it is now." As usual, the L.D.P. seems more interested in keeping itself in power than cleaning up Japan's corruption-prone politics...
...says the U.S. deems it important not to have any upper-ranking contact with anyone from New Zealand. That's their decision, not ours...
...fifth goal, Vaughan recovered the ball for Harvard, and Joslin reeled it to Karen Everling, who placed the ball in its final destination--the upper corner of the goal...